Lawspeaker or Chieftan

[Rhiannon]

having finally finished my idol and making me a little noob town out in the boonies, I was wondering what the more experinenced people preffered to be? I am of course the lawgiver and assume i can change to chieftan? If I renounce lawspeaker will it estroy my town or allow me to give my alt that title and me take the chieftan or...should I remian lawspeaker and give my alt the title of chieftan (since I know noone else, i got the town founded by using alts and a couple friends who agreed to join and get yoemen to help me found my town but they don't play). So which title is better or am I stuck being lawspeaker? Or is that the better title anyway?

Any thoughts on how I should (or you would) proceed would be appreciated.

[Kadol]

If you renounce Lawspeaker any member of the town can take that position while it is vacant, such as your alt. Just make sure that both you and your alt don't accidently leave the town at the same time or you'll be stuck staring at the idol and scratching your head.

Lawspeaker gets to remove other people's claims and look wise and portentious and boot the chieftain if she thinks he isn't doing the job right.

Chieftain gets to summon hirdsmen.

I like Lawspeaker best. It's that elder statesman look that I adopt to go with it, as opposed to the head thug look our chieftain sports.

[Chakravanti]

Some villages that have a very trusted close knit group of people use something called 'rolling authority' which essentially perpetually leaves lawspeaker open to be picked up by any member that can to exercise authority functions. This is very useful for towns that are moving or and need to finish recruiting members or recruit many low level newbies but don't want to make a charter stone (or can't) and summoning with hirdsman is useful as such because it doesn't cost TW and can teleport you beyond your AGI. Any noob can be chieftain and summon if you have at least one community HQ bear tally.

Some villages that have strong trust with faraway villages use this method to trade as well by recruiting and summoning the mule back and forth.

Village management is seriously lacking in function. One of the major problem newbie towns (like swampcrazed) have are recruiting random newbies who turn out to be thieves that steal basic stuff like cauldrons, tools, food etc. There is currently no way to kick someone from a village that isn't immediately present either on your screen or in your party.

Some have worked around this rather harshly by claiming their entire village with a massive claim and dekinning the threat. This forces them either leave, or leave scents. In the latter case, the thief is tracked & killed.

Hope this gives you an idea of what's possible and what isn't and helps you run your village more effectively from the get go!

[Rhiannon]

Thanks, the posts helped alot, Guess mine will just be a little farming town. Maybe some noobs will join sometime as we do have nice empty land around and a couple nice resource spots and good location, though still on supergrid.

[ElGato]

hmm, if it's east of Brodgar, I think I saw it earlier

[Rhiannon]

hmm, if it's east of Brodgar, I think I saw it earlier

We are way south of Brodgar, between Cakeport and Southpoint harbor on the right side of the large lake in the middle of the maplib supergrid. Lake Russaria is the name of our town.